"backbone role" is a correct and usable term in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which someone important is depended on to provide stability and support. For example, "The CEO had a backbone role in supporting the company during the difficult economic climate."
The primary amine along the chitosan backbone plays a key role in biomedical applications.
The overwater monitoring platform which communicates with other nodes using GPRS plays the role of backbone node.
The present work shows the import role of backbone in junction, which can guide the design molecule to form effective junction for studying molecular electronics.
Acids dissolved in solution or tethered to a polymer backbone play an important role in the performance of the electrolytes utilized in energy storage and conversion technologies.
In order to prove the role of backbone in forming molecular junction, we also use carboxylic acid as the anchoring group to comparing difference between petanedioic acid and 1,4-benzenedicarboxylic acid.
The current work shows the import role of backbone in forming molecular junctions and may help the design of molecule in studying the electron transport of single-molecule junction.
Results of mechanical testing studies demonstrated that the nature and the ratio of the pendent groups attached to the polymer backbone play a significant role in determining the mechanical properties of the resulting polymer.
Given these properties and the absence of various glycerol-derived phospholipids, such as cardiolipin and phosphatidylethanolamine, in T. roseum, it is probable that carotenoids modified by glycosylation and acylation at both ends of the C-40 backbone play an important role in membrane stabilization in this thermophile (Figure 4C).
The analysis of the different trajectories revealed an essential role for backbone and side chain motions, in particular of the flexible βFαG'-loop, in cofactor and substrate binding, and the existence of distinguished conformer ensembles related to the single steps of the catalysis.
There is convincing evidence for the role of backbone amides and partial positive charges in the reduction potential of Fe S centers.
